Nadiya Hussain served up a tasty dhansak bake beef and lentils curry with eggs and a onion and cheese mash on Nadiya’s Simple Spices.

The ingredients for the beef are: 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 2 onions, diced, ½ tsp salt, plus extra for the mash and eggs, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 3 tbsp curry powder, 1 kg diced beef, cut into 1cm pieces, 400g tin of lentils, 500ml water and 4 tbsp beef gravy granules.

For the onion mash: 1kg potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped, 200g butter, 200ml whole milk, 3 tbsp mayonnaise, 2 cloves of garlic, grated, 75g crispy fried onions, small handful of fresh chives, finely chopped, 2 spring onions, thinly sliced and 200g Red Leicester cheese, grated.

To finish: 4 medium eggs.

See recipes by Nadiya in her book titled: Nadiya’s Simple Spices available from Amazon now.